A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

Akshaye Khanna
Akshaye Khanna

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

Alycia Debnam-Carey
Alycia Debnam-Carey

I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective.

Andrew Goodman
Andrew Goodman

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

Andy Ruiz Jr.
Andy Ruiz Jr.

It irritates me when Trump says what he does.

Aneurin Barnard
Aneurin Barnard

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.

Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy

I used to irritate people. I'd give them a hard time, and when it drove them crazy, that was funny to me.

Chris Long
Chris Long

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.